ISBN:
9789814695763
,
9789814695770
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (419 p)
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Borderlands
;
Internal migrants
Abstract:
Myanmar's mountain and maritime borderscapes : local practices, boundary-making, and figured worlds -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Language, Terminology and Geographical Names -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction by Su-Ann Oh -- Section I: Overview of Myanmar’s Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes -- 2. Electoral Sovereignty in Myanmar’s Borderlands by Nicholas Farrelly -- 3. The Maritime Frontier of Myanmar: Challenges in the Early 21st Century by Maung Aung Myoe -- Section II: Territorial Claims and Imagined Boundaries -- 4. Burman Territories and Borders in the Making of a Myanmar Nation State by Maxime Boutry -- 5. Ritual and the Other in Rakhine Spirit Cults by Alexandra de Mersan -- 6. Rohingya Territoriality in Myanmar and Bangladesh: Humanitarian Crisis and National Disordering by Anders Bjornberg -- Section III: Social Organization and Border Economies -- 7. The Culture and Landscape of the Humanitarian Economy among the Karen (Kayin) in the Borderland of Southeast Myanmar and Northwest Thailand by Alexander Horstmann -- 8. Navigating Learning, Employment and Economies in the Mae Sot-Myawaddy Borderland by Su-Ann Oh -- Section IV: Mobile Practices and Moving Borders -- 9 The Spatiality and Borderless-ness of Contentious Politics: Kachin Mobilities as Capability by Karin Dean -- 10. The Mule Caravans as Cross-Border Networks: Local Bands and their Stretch on the Frontier between Yunnan and Burma by Jianxiong Ma and Cunzhao Ma -- Section V: Identity Construction and the Politics of Belonging -- 11. “I Want to Stay Forever in You” by Decha Tangseefa -- 12. Life along the Naf Border: Identity Politics of the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh by Kazi Fahmida Farzana -- 13. Home of the Housekeeper: Will Shan Migrants Return after a Decade of Migration? by Amporn Jirattikorn -- 14. Moving On: Spaces of Uncertain Freedom and Engagement in the Kayah–Mae Hong Son Borderland by Carl Grundy-Warr and Chin Wei Jun -- Section VI: Institutionalized Identity and Border Practices -- 15. The Chin State-Mizoram Border: Istitutionalized Xenophobia for State Control by Bianca Son and N. William Singh -- 16. Tăi Buddhist Practices on the China-Myanmar Border by Takahiro Kojima -- Index.
Abstract:
This edited volume adds to the literature on Myanmar and its borders by drawing attention to the significance of geography, history, politics and society in the construction of the border regions and the country. First, it alerts us to the fact that the border regions are situated in the mountainous and maritime domains of the country, highlighting the commonalities that arise from shared geography. Second, the book foregrounds socio-spatio practices — economic, intimate, spiritual, virtual — of border and boundary-making in their local context. This demonstrates how state-defined notions of territory, borders and identity are enacted or challenged. Third, despite sharing common features, Myanmar’s borderscapes also possess unique configurations of ethnic, political and economic attributes, producing social formations and figured worlds that are more cohesive or militant in some border areas than in others. Understanding and comparing these social practices and their corresponding life-worlds allows us to re-examine the connections from the borderlands back to the hinterland and to consider the value of border and boundary studies in problematizing and conceptualizing recent changes in Myanmar
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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